tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post1493719286391001751..comments2024-03-21T09:39:36.523+11:00Comments on Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος: DGE Vol VIIopoudjishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-70959142722679520822010-02-02T16:25:54.309+11:002010-02-02T16:25:54.309+11:00Edit: "comprehensive" for "compresi...Edit: "comprehensive" for "compresive." :(Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068077941877080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-57523654726855978572010-02-02T16:21:28.696+11:002010-02-02T16:21:28.696+11:00Volume VII of the Diccionario Griego-Español (ἐκπε...<i>Volume VII of the Diccionario Griego-Español (ἐκπελλεύω–ἔξαυος), . . . and is available for purchase. (I've just ordered it.)</i><br /><br />You don't say!<br /><br />Well, don't put your credit card away just yet. Here's another book to seriously consider: <i>A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language</i>, edited by Edgar J. Bakker. It's a compresive account of the language: Mycenaean, Classical, Koine---even Midieval, early Modern, and Modern. Needless to say, the essay on Modern Greek is by the redoubtable Perer Mackridge. <br /><br />The book is 704 pages (50 pages of bibliography!)containing 36 essays from leading international scholars. And I mean "international." Except for a few names like Nagy, Holton, Dickey, Mackridge, and Probert, I am unfamiliar with the rest. For example, the contributor to the chapter titled "The Birth of Grammar in Greece" is Andreas U. Schmidhauser; the chapter titled "Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past," Staffan Wahlgren. I guess this is the new generation of Greek scholars. <br /><br />The book is divided into 7 parts:<br /><br />1. The Sources. <br />2. The Language. <br />3. Greek in Time and Space: Historical and Geographical Connections. <br />4. Greek in Context. <br />5. Greek as Literature. <br />6. The Study of Greek <br />7. Beyond Antiquity.<br /><br />The book's release is this spring. I'm afraid it's dear: $175 on amazon.com. Hard to resist when you know it will make a wonderful addition to the book <i>A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity</i>, by the late, great Christidis, and a fine complement to the upcoming new Horrocks book. <br /><br />CheersUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068077941877080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-2675957269582438392010-01-22T01:09:35.900+11:002010-01-22T01:09:35.900+11:00Gotcha, thanks.Gotcha, thanks.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-38964720529971644992010-01-20T01:43:02.221+11:002010-01-20T01:43:02.221+11:00Because they went back and redid Vol I (second edi...Because they went back and redid Vol I (second edition) after they got to Vol VI:<br /><br />I: 1980<br />II: 1986<br />III: 1991<br />IV: 1994<br />V: 1997 [already out of print !!—I know, because I tried to buy it last year]<br />VI: 2002<br />I 2: 2008<br />VII: 2009opoudjishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106433476518749382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1291147930399569160.post-88067461057721089982010-01-20T01:29:27.288+11:002010-01-20T01:29:27.288+11:00the DGE's own web page, which hasn't been ...<i>the DGE's own web page, which hasn't been updated since the second edition of Volume I</i><br /><br />Then how come I see everything through Vol. VI on it?Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.com